EB and DirectX 9

[Blue Death]

Hello Technical Help Forum,

My problem is not one of a CTD within EB, but rather a problem with starting EB itself.

When I run the application file, it says "Rome: Total War failed to find DirectX 9, which is required for the game to run. Please reinstall DirectX."

The thing is, I have DirectX9 installed, maybe it cannot find the folder?

I am using EB with BI.exe (1.6) if it makes a difference, although I tried this with both vanilla RTW and vanilla BI (several times) so I don't think that's the case.


Any help is appreciated.

[bovi]

Have you run dxdiag? That will tell you if some part of DirectX is damaged or missing.

[Blue Death]

Hmm... After running dxdiag, it said there were no problems with the DirectX files or anything else, though I did get a few error messages...

"The procedure entry point OpenVxDHandle could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32.dll"
"There may have been a problem accessing DirectInput the last time this program was used. Would you like to bypass DirectInput this time?" Yes/No

When I clicked Yes, nothing else happens. But when I clicked No, dxdiag crashes...
After repeating this several times, Windows opened a pop-up telling me to download the August 2008 update. I did, and several dozen WinRar files (which I know how to extract) filled the folder. Only a few of them are labelled Aug 2008, many of them have 2007 or 2006.

Then there's something called dxnt.rar, and it's quite a large file so I suspect it does something...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Ehrm? What Windows version are you using? It's got to be way outdated for its kernel not to work with Microsofts very own hard-pushed propietary DirectX-ware.

[Blue Death]

Outdated? Odd, I'm using Vista...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Very odd, because Vista has (edit: both DirectX 10 and) DirectX 9.0c by default. <_<

Did you let RomeTW install its DirectX 9.0b?
First try to see if a re-install of DirectX 9.0c fixes the problems if not I think the issue lies with RomeTW and your Vista not getting along with eachother very well; so I'd suggest re-installing RTW. When you re-install RTW make sure to install RTW to somewhere under your home directory and forbid it to install DirectX 9.0b. Verify you have a working RTW install first, before attempting to install EB.